Let me tell you a funny little story, dear readers. On a 7-hour flight from New York to Edinburgh, I am sitting next to a couple who are trying to engage her in a very personal, very acrimonious argument. Picture a bag full of Sour Patch Kids Extreme, slowly dwindling away as the English woman desperately smokes each bag to quell her panic. Imagine that woman finally getting home that night and trying to brush her teeth, only to have the scent of mint send a burning pain through her debilitated tongue. Clearly, that woman is me! And the anecdote was obviously very relevant to the story to come!

Chrissy Teigen also loves sour candy and recently shared on social media that her intake increased dramatically during her pregnancy. Unfortunately, her tongue has suffered the consequences, as she revealed in a very graphic Instagram story on Thursday. 'I told you my tongue was about to fall off from eating too much sour candy. And I'm not going to let that happen," she said in the clip. For those with stronger stomachs, see below:

"It's literally falling off because I eat so much in the middle of the night. I eat sour straws. I suck on the straw and then I eat the blowpop. My tongue literally falls off." She goes on to hold up a piece of tongue that literally peels off, but I'm not going to give you, the reader, this visual (for the truly masochistic, a screenshot is available in People (opens in a new tab)). I apologize for writing this article! I didn't want to suffer alone.